#memento morro

[quiznak-ofgrayskull]

5 years of writing improvement!

2021

Morro was a weird kid, you could ask anyone, really. He had a weird green streak in his hair that had always been there, and always confused everyone who talked to him. They asked where he 'got it done' and they always gave him a whole range of weird looks once he told them he was born with it. Sometimes, when he got really angry it would get windy and a few times trees had been uprooted, or had fallen over.

and now, 2026...

Morro had always been… strange. He knew as much from all the looks he got, and the whispers that were never low enough for him to miss. He always picked up on the hissed comments about him being "bad luck" and how the green streak in his hair was a bad omen. Morro was weird; Morro didn't belong; Morro was cursed. Most days, he was used to it. Sometimes, he got angry, and felt the wind nip at his face, and a storm would blow into town, and he thought that maybe they were right. One day, a tree was uprooted, and flew all the way down the street. Morro wasn't even near the part of town where it landed, but there was no way they would have let him stay after that. It had hit somebody, and they must have been more important than him.

[quiznak-ofgrayskull]

This got a chuckle out of me while rereading my draft from a few months ago:

"Morro had always been an orphan. Well, he guessed it wasn’t always, but it’s not like he remembered who his parents were, or ever having them, so he went with always."

[quiznak-ofgrayskull]

Editing the memento mori chapter one draft from hell wish me luckkk

[quiznak-ofgrayskull]

i would very much like to know about this morro au ψ(｀∇´)ψ

(also yes make him a hippie,, do it,,,)

:D

Okay so like I said it's kind of just a morro redemtion au, as one does. I actually haven't planned out how he comes back all that well, but I read this one oneshot like two years ago that I cannot find for the life of me, where Morro slips through with Garmadon in s8. I really like that cause I think it fits the theme of him just... slipping through when he really should just be dead lol. If anyone knows what I'm talking about please link it I tried to find it but idk where it is. So I think I'm going to go with that!

I like just made a post about the other cursed realm ghosts lowkey adopting morro, and they are all just an evil lil ghost family. I just like the idea of Morro caring about them in some capacity because... why not? Like, they're also more experienced with the whole evil schtick, and the ghost thing, so they probably do have life advice to give him, cause he's like. A teenager/young adult and some of them have been there for A While. And again just a sucker for anything found-family.

Oh yeah and Jestro from Nexo Knights is also there and briefly mentioned because I can, and idc what anyone else says or the canon (or the retconned canon) of the show, I consider Chima and Nexo Knights to be realms of some sort in the ninjago universe and I thought it was a fun lil detail lol-

When Morro does come back I don't know if he stays with the ninja or what. Like, I feel like he'd go off on his own for a bit to find himself n stuff, and just show up at random points? And maybe stay with them after that? idk- I feel like Morro would want to be able to find himself outside of his identity as an elemental master/(non) green ninja.

And yes hippie morro is my life because I have never once let go of a joke haha. But will I still do this? of course. Like maybe not full-on hippie morro, but he deserves a little bit of hippie. as a treat.

[quiznak-ofgrayskull]

Do I have the self control required not to slightly make memento mori morro a hippie? No, why would you assume such a thing-

[quiznak-ofgrayskull]

Hey you guys should totally send random ass asks about my redeemed morro au that really isn't all that original but I am now Thinking About It so like. :)

[quiznak-ofgrayskull]

Oooh Idea: So I might make Memento Mori a two parter: Memento Mori is like, Morro's POV for the canon stuff, and then Monachopsis would actually be the redeemed Morro portion of the story that completely spits in the face of the canon (an exaggeration)

So like, Memento Mori would be centered around Morro's canon arc, and then Monachopsis would be him finding a place in the world after saying "screw it" to death/destiny again.

[quiznak-ofgrayskull]

Oh yeah! I was walking around in gym and remembered one of my favorite parts about Memento Mori: Morro lowkey gets adopted by the ghosts in the cursed realm. Like I severely doubt I'm the first ever person to think of such things, but I just think it's a fun concept, you know?

Like, in my very slow rewrite process, I haven't gotten to it yet (trying to flesh out morro + wu a bit more), but in the first draft Morro died and was very pissed off in general, and they were all just pestering the new kid to oblivion because like. Boredom, you know? It ended with him being edgy and screaming at them I think, and that was like. The last chapter I wrote cause I wasn't happy with how I finished it off, but I think what I'll do in the newer version is have either a break or a second chapter of them just doing things in the cursed realm, and it starts off essentially where 2-years-ago-me put it, and then cut to years later when they have Bonded(tm) and it's kind of a found family except they're all evil assholes and I love them for that.

I think this was actually my first time actually writing a found family trope, too. It now shows up in all my writing lol.